Photoshop - How often do you all use it?

[NolascoDesign]

New to the forum here and I guess to the photography community in general. How frequent do you use Photoshop to edit images? I'm a graphic designer so I'm use to editing all my shots in Photoshop before using it on my projects. I know magazines airbrush the crap out of their images. How often do you all use it and to what extent?

 

[NikonME]

Some use Photoshop, but what I notice alot is that many more people use Adobe Lightroom.

I use both.

 

[NolascoDesign]

Never heard of Lightroom until now. I need to do some research. I assume Lightroom has more photography type filters and all that compared to Photoshop. Thanks for introducing me.

 

[KmH]

I use Photoshop a lot. Like 7 days a week.

Mainly I use CS5, so I use Bridge (included with CS5) to import, cull, and organize my images. I then use Camera Raw (also included with CS5 and Lighroom 3) to do my initial batch edits. I then use the Photoshop workspace to do whatever other image by image edits needed, run any actions I want to use, and run any other batch processes needed.

I then add the finished images to my Lightroom catalog and collections.

I would say most of the people that have Lightroom, don't use it the way Adobe designed and intended it to be used. Adobe designed Photoshop Lightroom to be a compliment to Photoshop CS for photographers that produce a lot of images and can benefit from some workflow advantages Lightroom offers.

 

[NolascoDesign]

Thanks KmH. Since we're in the topic of Photoshop, is turning a photo that you originally took in color to black/white looked down upon in the photography community? Again, excuse my ignorance, I'm new.

 

[imagemaker46]

I use photoshop every day.

 

[KmH]

Not at all. That is how you are able to exercise the most control over the contrast in the final B&W image.

 

[NolascoDesign]

Awesome. I plan on posting pics and was a little leery of using those shots that I turned to black and white. Now I'm not, thanks!

 

[ngaerlan]

I use Aperture 3 from Apple, hardly use photoshop, only if I need to do heavy editing like replacing the sky, or removing an object.

Eternal Eights Photography

 

[Netskimmer]

Awesome. I plan on posting pics and was a little leery of using those shots that I turned to black and white. Now I'm not, thanks!

I felt the same way at first. Using software to alter my photos seemed like cheating.

 

[NolascoDesign]

Exactly how I felt. Whenever I did it, I always felt guilty... like adding clouds, making grass greener, ridding zits off people's faces, etc.

 

[ghache]

I use it alot,


I am in a wedding photography community on facebook and somebody asked the question the other day and i was shocked to see that 90% of them was using lightroom for about 95% of all the retouching they do, i was like really? Lightroom is a great content management tool but to do all your post processing? i dont know

 

[e.rose]

On every image I plan on letting see the light of day (For fun Facebook and iPhone snapshots are exceptions. XD ).

I import to Lightroom first... and finish up in PS. To what extent? Depends on the image. Band stuff pretty much just gets sharpened in PS and that's that. Other stuff might have more done to it. I've spent 5 minutes with an image in PS and I've spent two whole afternoon in to evenings on a single image. Just depends on what I'm working on. :sillysmi:

 

[shmne]

I have a pretty simple set up for photos:

Bridge (organization, rating, labeling, keywording, meta-tagging stuff) ===> ACR (Batch clean ups, minor contrast / saturation sort of things) ===> Photoshop (Everything else)

Since I'm a graphic designer first, I use bridge to handle all of my file management that I need done. To me lightroom is a bit of a waste in that regard :-\

 

[Fallingslowly]

I use photoshop alot to edit my photos, if its just to change the color of the image or to crop or remove something, I all it for most of my photos.